Summary Of The Cigarette Of This Generation

The rise of technology and the change in the forms of modern communication are transformations that we cannot dismiss as factors that are changing the capabilities and mentalities of today’s youth. The Millennial generation is a one that has adapted their lifestyles and communication methods to social media, text messaging and emails, as well they prefer and trusts technology for our communications and business. Although a great deal of people would say that this adaptation is corrupting our means to read, spell, write and reflect on our own, others disagree. We have definitely been spoiled with the ability to simply Google search our confusions and how to spell words, but this can also be seen as a blessing, rather than an “obstacle” to our
The author of The Cigarette of This Century, Ian Bogost, refers to this as a “compulsive habit”; the majorities of those with ties to technology suffer from this. Teachers and professors struggle with controlling the usage of cell phones, regardless of the regulations set for the classroom. The article presents the idea saying, “McLuhan argued that technologies can never be fully grasped in the present, only after we establish some distance from them” (Bogost). It is doubtful that a phenomenon as massive as technology can ever truly be grasped, but introduces that we don’t understand ourselves; and probably never will fully understand. People may not even recognize that there is any problem, and conclude that it is part of the norm. They fail to realize that they themselves are not subject to being dependent on technology, and they can instead begin to limit themselves; the first step would be consciously acknowledging the need for change. For example, merely restricting oneself to not having a cell phone present in class can cause extreme benefits. In this way, one could attempt to focus better in class because that is the reason one is there in a classroom in the first